I just realised I never blogged about this.  Before I started messing about with Greasemonkey, I wrote a small Firefox extension just to dip my toe in the Mozilla waters.

It is far from complex and is based on the classic ‘Define’ extension, simply adding an item to the text selection context menu that allows the user to easily search an artist or album on Rate Your Music.

So here is the extension, feel free to install it on Firefox versions up to and including the forthcoming 3.1, and also (more importantly, as Songbird is my main browser as far as RYM goes) Songbird versions up to and including the forthcoming 1.1.  This won’t be submitted to AMO yet, as I first plan to turn my Greasemonkey script into an extension (already done, utilising this nifty tool), before adding an options menu and integrating the context menu functionality in this extension to make the ultimate (only?) RYM enhancement for Firefox.

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Ok, so new blog set up with minimal customisation (everything is likely to change) and the first theme that validates properly with HTML Tidy (it also happens to be nice and green).

This is the first speed comparison of the new native JavaScript GetElementsByClassName functionality which is built into what will become Firefox 3. Very impressive, it should mean Fx3 will actually feel significantly faster when poking around sites, especially those with lots of JS.

Picture from the above link:

On a side note, I’m very impressed with WordPress so far, it’s all very well laid out, nice and intuitive. You can edit anything you want so eventually I’ll be hacking up a theme and hopefully integrating the blog with the rest of the (not yet existent) site. Oh, and the Dreamhost installation really was only one click!

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